Thanks to everyone who was with us for our online meeting last night. Good to see so many owners able to attend and share updates on your horses-groups. It has been a great year summer for Kenwood and we are looking for it to continue through the end of the year and beyond.
Horse by Horse News
- This evening New Found Treasure was a hard-trying 4th at Penn National. As mentioned previously, it was not an easy race but as usual she tried hard and ran well. We were forced to run her here for exactly twice the price she’d been successfully competing at all summer because opportunities for turf horses are few and far between at this time of year. She just wasn’t quite up to the task but still gave it her all and didn’t run badly.
Lots of entry news. As usual, entry information is here.
- Tracy Ann's Legacy has post #6 for the 10th & feature race, the Virgil (Buddy) Raines Stakes at Monmouth Park tomorrow with a great writeup from Monmouth Park, Tracy Ann’s Legacy To Take On The Boys In Saturday’s Opening-Day Feature For Meadowlands-At-Monmouth Park Meet. She will have to face male horses and it will be a very tough race. If you want to know just how tough consider she’s 10 to 1 in the morning line off a 4+ length win in an exceptionally fast time on this grass course and a 7 length win in her last start. That said, as Kelly Breen is quoted in the story, she’s at her home track with no shipping and couldn’t be doing any better. She’s earned her way to this race and will certainly get an acid test here. Win or lose she’s already been a very profitable horse for us and we expect lots more good races to come.
- A surprise entry for Life On the Edge next Wednesday at Monmouth Park. A favorable spot came up, we’re going to evaluate the race and decide if we want to run, as of now she’s running.
- Rapstorerocks gets in the entries next Wednesday at Penn National. A competitive spot for this consistent horse, looking for another good effort as he’s run well all summer at Penn for us.
- Pango gets in for next Friday at Penn National. Not the ideal spot; a longer distance than his best plus a jump in class, but as with New Found Treasure this evening turf opportunities get very limited this time of year and the horse is doing great. He’s in great form so if he can handle the 2 turns he’ll run well in here.
- Blu Candy worked in company from the gate at Monmouth this week and did really well. She has come to hand quickly after returning from a brief layoff at the farm. You can see a video Kelly Breen took here. Once a horse starts working that generally means they are 8 weeks +/- from a race, so there’s a good shot she makes it to the races this fall.
- Seven Seven arrived safely at Sunset Meadow farm for a little R&R and settled in just fine.
- Adhwaa ready to roll, looking for a spot for her Kenwood Racing debut. There’s a race for her next week to enter in at Monmouth Park, also spots out of town for her. Doing excellent, will likely have one more easy breeze before she runs.
- Giuliana Vee pointing for a spot at Penn National next week, all good, no issues.
- Itsgottabemyway is being pointed for a spot later in October at Monmouth Park, doing well
- Fire's Finale well and pointing for a spot at Monmouth Park in mid-October
- Highwaytwentyseven none the worse for wear out of a tough trip at Monmouth Park last weekend. Should run back in a couple of weeks.
- Lisa Limon and weanling by Liam’s Map both very well in Kentucky. Take a look at this video of this exceptional weanling. As you can hear the farm manager Sergio saying in the video, he's the most photographed horse on the entire farm. Truly in 4 decades of doing this I have not seen a better looking, more balanced individual. Good news with his sire, Liam’s Map today too, his 2 year old filly Crazy Beautiful was 2nd in a grade 1 stake at Keeneland this afternoon.